I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.

Like what? (Curious)

I’d get myself banned this way. I forget the -p flag at least once per week.

I’ve had good luck with these guys: https://cloudfanatic.net/pricing/

I think they would fall in the less resources category. But they offer unlimited data transfer, and you can use any distro you want. I run slackware btw.

This is the best advice. Heed it!

I’ve been daily driving linux since the late 90s and have no idea what wine prefixes are!

What if I went from great student to degenerate drug addict and don’t have a degree?

Mine too! But for a couple days only.

Gold star for you!

This one: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/fileserver

Nextcloud was too high fallutin for me. I share a zfs pool with proxmox’s file server appliance.

There are tools to download, compile and install packages! Whether or how you use them is left up to the slacker. I use them, but I scrutinize most deps so that I’m not adding support for features I won’t use.

I think Slackware’s reputation for being difficult dates back to the 90s when all linux was difficult. Slackware has evolved just like everyone else, just differently. It’s easy to install, and works like any other kde plasma based distro if you choose the default full install.

The two biggest differences are no systemd and package management. Slackpkg functions somewhat like apt-get, but only for official packages and updates. Everything else can be installed with slackbuild scripts that can be automated with sbopkg. This process is similar to using the AUR with a helper like yay. And I have some flatpaks installed too.

Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap

I use a microSD to usb adapter and have 2 spinning rust disks. So it’s /sdc for me, but i still always double check. Dd isn’t called the disk destroyer for nothing.

Plug your usb drive in and run lsblk to figure out which letter to use instead of x in /dev/sdx

sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress

EDIT: I totally didn’t read your request. This is not gui or Mac based, but it still might help someone.

I should take another crack at sway. I didn’t know about EOS. I started with nwg-shell.

Remember the first time you got a printer working in Linux? Better than sex…

Nope! Everything just works and it’s rock solid. It’s also been my daily driver for over 20 years.

I was doing a lot of tech support when my wife was on endeavouros and my daughter was on bazzite. Tbf, my problems with bazzite were probably down to me not understanding the immutable distro concept.

I’ll probably finally get around to standing up an arr stack. RD is just too easy.